Re: Language Naming

"Sheets, Jeff" wrote:

> I'm attempting to come up with a family tree of Languages for my Fictional
> world, and it occurs to me that I'm not nearly as sure about the general
> "convention" of naming languages.
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> Well, by now I hope my point and question has been successfully
> communicated, and I'm sure a lot of you guys can give general rules about
> how to name languages.  Now I just gotta find that multifractal based
> earthlike-planet generator algorithm I've got laying around somewhere.....
> :)
Jeff,
I can only tell you what happened in my fictional world.  The Glide language was
named after the people, a subculture, who originated it, the Glides. A slave
language. But it was not derived from the prevailing language. There is no
geographical or political designation to go with the name.  Just the people
themselves. Perhaps this is vaguely analagous to languages or dialects (Cajun,
maybe?) or creoles or slave languages.

Diana